It’s the sacred season of Lent. The three disciplines of Lent are prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. One of the questions people frequently have about Lent pertains to fasting.
Did Christ Found a Leaderless Church?
Catholics can accept the view that Christ founded the Church on the faith of Peter. However, we reject the notion that that is all Christ intended.
The Eucharist is Christ Himself
“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
The Eucharist is Christ: All Else in Life is Expendable
The American novelist Flannery O’Connor once commented about how the Eucharist was the center of her existence. “All the rest of life is expendable,” she said. If we plumb the depths of the Eucharist in faith, we are met with the fact that we cannot live without it.
The ‘God of the Gaps’ Error
The God of the Gaps error goes like this: If scientists cannot explain how something occurs in nature, then it MUST be due to a special miracle by God.